Santa Anita Park will have thoroughbred racing from December 26 through April 22, a season expanded by two weeks. The horse racing bill AB 3383 provided other changes in the sport that will affect Santa Anita Park.
Arcadia City Council will be asked to determine whether they want to extend a "resolution of inducement for tax-exempt financing" for the proposed Ramada Inn (now Santa Anita Inn) project.
The Arcadia City Council has decided to allow horses to remain within 35 feet of a neighbor's home as long as the horse was there first. Previously the city code would have required horses to move if a new home was built within 100 feet of the horse.
The Anheuser-Busch Inc. brewery will move its Clydesdale horses from the Santa Anita Park race track stables because of a disagreement in the cost of housing them.
An Arcadia resident for 35 years and married 40 years to world famous jockey Johnny Longden, Hazel Longden was one of the first women to become a licensed horse trainer. She is the first woman to train a stakes winner at Santa Anita Park.
Santa Anita Companies has announced earnings for the year ending December 31, 1981. Revenues were up 23.5%. Shares of the two companies, Santa Anita Operating Company and Santa Anita Realty Enterprises, Inc., are offered on the New York Stock Exchange under the name Santa Anita Realty Enterprises.
If Santa Anita Park race track and other tracks cannot successfully compete with the just instituted state lottery that results from the passage of Proposition 37, the horse racing industry may go to Sacramento to seek tax relief, according to Robert Strub, president of the Los Angeles Turf Club.
Ray Rogers, vice president and general manager, is celebrating his 25th anniversary with Santa Anita Park. Rogers discusses the past and future of Santa Anita.
Up to 1000 mentally ill people in Arcadia and surrounding cities will be left with nowhere to turn for treatment if the Arcadia Mental Health Clinic closes on September 1.
Ernie Harrington, principal of Santa Anita Elementary School has retired. He joined the district staff in 1950 as a fourth grade teacher. Santa Anita School will not be opening in the fall.